I hope you let the post stay up as it’s educational

This guy stands up to his bullies. Every one who says ‘it’s useless, don’t fight against a multi-ton machine’ gives the drivers of the multi-ton machines a pass for aggressive/entitlement/etc behavior. Now I’m not advocating for standing up to your bullies as it’s not good for survival, but I admire those who do.

I myself just go around the problem, but I do so with a spectacular flair (I made sure every eye is watching me, I want to be *very* visible and not be in any blind spot), but even so I’ve been told off for doing so, so it’s damned if I do damned if I don’t. (And I’ll gladly tell more stories from my Schrodinger-esque bike-riding experience; I’ve experienced all flavors).

Not to mention the double-standardery of happily pointing out cyclists who run stop signs (and rightly so, I have no objection to that), but suppressing those who are pointing out bad driver behavior because apparently dangerous driving is normal/acceptable.

“Riding on sidewalk”–I’m very triggered by this. On one hand people want cyclists to obey the law, but then turn around and say “ride on the sidewalk” which is against the law? I tend to pry and ask to clarify and usually get a response of “forget the law, ride safe (on the sidewalk).” So are laws supposed to be cherry-picked? That’s not how laws work. Get real.

addendum: His behavior toward non-car road users is where I disagree with him. I believe the most vulnerable road users should have the first right of way, followed by the bigger/heavier ones in sequence. If a person is found wandering in the bike lane or the road, it’s usually bad road design: walking should have shortest distance, and heavier vehicles can go around (bikes go around people, cars go around bikes, etc).